The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was good at music and liked beautiful women. He chose three hundred servants and several hundred maids, and established a teaching workshop and opera garden.
In the fourth year of Tianbao, the daughter of the Yang family entered the palace. She was unparalleled in beauty, skilled in singing and dancing, and was favored by the emperor and named a noble concubine. The imperial concubine liked luxury, and the emperor built palaces and recruited maids.
In the tenth year of Tianbao's reign, Lu Liu'er, a peasant girl from the suburbs of Chang'an, was twelve years old and was selected to serve as a palace maid in Yeting.